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Future Shock/Head Hunters,Herbie Hancock

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Herbie Hancock
Released 2008

Rockit
05:28
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Chameleon
15:44
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Rockit [Mega Mix][*]
06:18
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- Rockit
- 05:28
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- Future Shock
- 08:05
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- TFS
- 05:47
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- Earth Beat
- 05:13
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- Autodrive
- 06:27
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- Rough
- 06:58
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- Rockit [Mega Mix][*]
- 06:18
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- Chameleon
- 15:44
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- Watermelon Man
- 06:31
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- Sly
- 10:21
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- Vein Melter
- 09:09
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album review

This slipcase box packs two of Herbie Hancock's most commercially successful and wildly inventive recordings into one package. Issued exactly a decade apart, these two records both issued in specific changes in the world of recorded sound. 1973's Head Hunters marked the true beginning of hardcore electric jazz-funk. As an album, its killer breaks, badass bass whomp, and infectious vamps connected immediately with both the rock & roll hordes as well as those beefing up on Funkadelic and Earth, Wind & Fire. The latter recording, produced by Bill Laswell, all but took Hancock out of the jazz realm altogether and forged something else out of a meld of hip-hop beats, scratching (courtesy of turntablist DST), and futurist jazz vibes -- thanks to the participation of Laswell and his crew of downtown N.Y.C. musicians as well as Wayne Shorter, guitarist Pete Cosey, and drummer Hamid Drake -- to funky world fusion from Toshinori Kondo, Aiyb Dieng, Foday Musa Suso, Sly Dunbar, Daniel Ponce, and others. The album scored a big single and dance club hit with "Rockit," and even won a Grammy. Despite the wild differences in feel, these two sets are a perfect complement to one another. Usually these two-fers are simply a way for a record company to clear their shelves of excess inventory, and provide little rhyme or reason for pairing or even tripling titles together in a dodgy package. In this case, the intention might be the same, but the result is aesthetically and funkily on target. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide